* Peter Volkov p...@gentoo.org schrieb:
?? ??, 19/09/2010 ?? 19:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger ??:
many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page:
$ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz
.so man1/gzip.1
compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that
UM == Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org writes:
UM If we take the second route, then maybe it should be a more general
UM solution, i.e. exclude all tiny files (man page or not) from
UM compression?
First, from a user’s perspective, not compressing small files is a good
thing. Man pages perhaps
On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 05:26:36 James Cloos wrote:
Ulrich Mueller writes:
If we take the second route, then maybe it should be a more general
solution, i.e. exclude all tiny files (man page or not) from
compression?
First, from a user’s perspective, not compressing small files is
В Вск, 19/09/2010 в 19:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger пишет:
many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page:
$ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz
.so man1/gzip.1
compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that means we
arent saving space, and we're adding overhead
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:
many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page:
$ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz
.so man1/gzip.1
compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that means we
arent saving space, and we're adding overhead at
On Monday, September 20, 2010 01:59:33 Peter Volkov wrote:
В Вск, 19/09/2010 в 19:43 -0400, Mike Frysinger пишет:
many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page:
$ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz
.so man1/gzip.1
compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:
Isn't it better to skip compression on all tiny files (not only man
pages)? In such case some other functions will need to be updated
too (e.g. ecompress --suffix)...
perhaps, but i think it should only be done on automatic dirs like
On 09/19/2010 04:43 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page:
$ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz
.so man1/gzip.1
compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that means we
arent saving space, and we're adding overhead at
On Sunday, September 19, 2010 19:50:57 Zac Medico wrote:
On 09/19/2010 04:43 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
many man pages exist merely as a redirect to another man page:
$ xzcat /usr/share/man/man1/zcat.1.xz
.so man1/gzip.1
compressing these tiny (always?) results in a larger file. that
